In a developing country where due to limited funding HPV vaccination may not or cannot be carried out nationwide, how can the communities at higher risk of cervical cancer be identified?
The respective government will have to fund it to make the programme successful. WHO can take up such a project in some developing country to see about the feasibility of the same. Implementing this on community level in far flung areas in developing countries requires money, involvement of healthcare professionals and compliance by the community. This can be evaluated by taking up a pilot study.
Self-sampling for HPV testing is a good idea, but for that, the awareness of cervical cancer needed first in developing country. If every individual knows the cause of cervical cancer, and symptoms of the same, then we can brake the speed of cervical cancer.
Please refer to the work of Dr Jerome Belinson in this area of self sampling. There is now some data on this
Thank you Margaret Mckenzie, I have taken a look at the abstracts of two recent publication of Dr Jerome Belinson and there been helpful. I found out that I share the same line of thought as the studies reported and am working at getting the full papers although my institution does not have subscription to those journals. If it is possible to share these papers I will glad to have them.
Education is always the best way for prevention. you may check this video and find it useful because HPV pandemic is available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVxgomZWbw
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